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China's Foreign Minister Qiao Guanhua (L) and UN representative Huang Hua (R) laugh as they take their seats at the UN General Assembly for the first time. On 25 Oct 1971, the motion to recognize the PRC as the sole legal China was passed as GA Resolution 2758 (New York City, NY 1971)
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One of four known photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt in a wheelchair. Taken at Hyde Park, New York, with Ruthie Bie and dog Fala, February 1941
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Florence Cathedral in the 1860s. Even though the building was built in the golden age of Florence, the façade was not completed at that time. In 1864, a competition was announced for the design of the completion of the building, and the iconic façade was completed in 1887.
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18 or 20-year-old Albert Tangora, current world record holder in fast typing on a typewriter. His record is 141 words per minute, set on October 22, 1923. I'm not sure exactly when this photo was taken and what competition this trophy is for.
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Gustaf Håkansson, an unofficial competitor in the cycling race around Sweden (1764 km), who was not allowed to start due to his age of 66, but outclassed his rivals by over a day because he did not take the required sleep breaks. 1951 He rode a bike until he was 100 years old.
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HI&RM Franz Joseph I and HI&RH Archduke Otto, his great-grandnephew and 2nd in line to the throne after 1914, in 1914. Otto was actually named Franz Joseph Otto and would have been probably destined to rule as "Franz Joseph II" if he had become Emperor and King. Otto died in 2012.
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Women assembling mortar bombs at the Swan Electric Company in Wellington, New Zealand. Circa 1939-1945.
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Brazilian aeronaut Alberto Santos-Dumont flies the fixed-wing 14-bis 'Oiseau de Proie II' in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe. The plane lifted off and flew for 60 metres, without taking advantage of headwinds, ramps, catapults, slopes, or other devices (Paris, France 1906)
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A fashionable young woman exiting a NYC streetcar as gentleman looks on, 1912.
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German military advisers to Chiang Kai-shek leaving China in response to Japanese pressure. Hankou, China. July 5, 1938
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1945 mug shots of war criminals Albert Speer and Rudolf Hess. They were among the seven high ranking Nazis who were held in Spandau Prison in Berlin after their trial in Nuremberg.
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